Re: Vehicle cammo website/Babel Fish

http://www.babelfish.com/Languages/German/GermanMachine.shtml

gives a list of sites that do machine translation.  The quality of
machine
translation is not very good, although it should be enough for you to
get
the general idea.  If you want a good translation, you can pay about
$300-400/1000 words to a professional linguistics company.  Contact your
nearest localization sales rep...ah, that would be me. :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Kirke" <richardkirke@hotmail.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: Vehicle cammo website/Babel Fish

> Allan,
>
> What is the URL for Babel Fish? Do I have to stick anything in my ear?
>
> Richard
>
> Who got scarred off by the German, but could cope with a small fish in
his
> ear to understand it
>
>
> > >http://www.panzerbaer.de/colours/default.htm
> > >
> > >The text is in german, but the figures should speak for themselves.
> >
> >This is a very cool site. I didn't understand the German, so I
pointed
> >Babel
> >Fish to it. For those who don't know, Babel Fish (named after the
> >translation
> >fish in "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy") is part of the Alta
Vista
> >search
> >engine. It does a whole bunch of language translations.
> >
> >At any rate, Babel Fish translated the site well enough to read,
though
> >some
> >of the technical stuff didn't translate (Flecktarnanstrich, for one,
though
> >you can sort of guess what it is). I smiled at, "The other armed
services
> >(air
> >Force, Navy, navy Corps) as well as for special vehicles (e.g.
engineering
> >equipment) apply separate manuals." German grammar doesn't translate
> >EXACTLY
> >to English via Babel Fish.
> >
> >This is a good site, and as Brian said, I didn't realize the "paint
by
> >numbers" aspect of the cammo schemes.
>
>
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